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The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it’s unattainable, all the same.

Bayard Taylor

Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
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Men Opportunity Wise
Pens carry further than rifled cannon.
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Cannons Carry Pens
Who thinks, at night, that morn will ever be? Who knows, far out upon the central sea, That anywhere is land? And yet, a shore Has set behind us, and will rise before: A past foretells a future.
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Hope Night Past
The hollows are heavy and dank With the steam of the Goldenrods.
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Dank heavy Steam
The stream from Wisdom’s well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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Streams Wells Wisdom
There may come a day Which crowns Desire with gift, and Art with truth, And Love with bliss, and Life with wiser youth!
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Art Desire Success
Wrapped in his sad-colored cloak, the Day, like a Puritan, standeth Stern in the joyless fields, rebuking the lingering color,– Dying hectic of leaves and the chilly blue of the asters,– Hearing, perchance, the croak of a crow on the desolate tree-top.
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Blue Color Tree
Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
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Ashes Death Green
The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.
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Courage Daring Engagement
Women are not apt to be won by the charms of verse.
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Charm Verses Wooing
By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
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Rich Wealth Wisdom
Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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Higher Perfect Song
Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyond tradition, there are very few relics of antiquity in or near it.
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Cities Foundation World
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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Observation People
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
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Love Old Shall You
Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth’s prolific lap.
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Earth Rain Sap

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